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Avatar 720 wrote:

agroszkiewicz wrote:

Avatar 720 wrote:Well, I got hacked earlier today because Blizzard Customer Support declined to communicate with me about suspicious e-mails I got.

I am slowly losing all respect I had for Blizzard.

This doesn't sound like Blizzard's fault in any shape form or fashion. I used the same PW on my WoW account for 4 years and never once got hacked.

I've had many different passwords, all secure, just in case. I've got licensed Kaspersky Anti-Virus and Malwarebytes, each regularly updated and scans performed daily. I'm IT savvy enough to know how to secure accounts and my PC and not to go to any dodgy websites. The one time I rely on Blizzard to confirm something about a string of suspicious e-mails regarding my battle.net account, they decline to get in touch with me bar an automated response that basicaly says "We got your customer support e-mail, we'll read it if we can be bothered."

I did everything I could on my side, the onus was on them to respond with a simple "Yes, these e-mails are genuine." or "No, these e-mails are fake." yet they decided not to reply at all. That was all they needed to do, but they left it so late that it now doesn't matter.

Not to sound like an asshat, but, if you don't have an authenticator, you didn't do everything possible to prevent it. It's a really good security measure for 6 bucks. I used to get hacked all the time, got one, not bothered with hackers since.

DrK36 wrote:

Avatar 720 wrote:

agroszkiewicz wrote:

Avatar 720 wrote:Well, I got hacked earlier today because Blizzard Customer Support declined to communicate with me about suspicious e-mails I got.

I am slowly losing all respect I had for Blizzard.

This doesn't sound like Blizzard's fault in any shape form or fashion. I used the same PW on my WoW account for 4 years and never once got hacked.

I've had many different passwords, all secure, just in case. I've got licensed Kaspersky Anti-Virus and Malwarebytes, each regularly updated and scans performed daily. I'm IT savvy enough to know how to secure accounts and my PC and not to go to any dodgy websites. The one time I rely on Blizzard to confirm something about a string of suspicious e-mails regarding my battle.net account, they decline to get in touch with me bar an automated response that basicaly says "We got your customer support e-mail, we'll read it if we can be bothered."

I did everything I could on my side, the onus was on them to respond with a simple "Yes, these e-mails are genuine." or "No, these e-mails are fake." yet they decided not to reply at all. That was all they needed to do, but they left it so late that it now doesn't matter.

Not to sound like an asshat, but, if you don't have an authenticator, you didn't do everything possible to prevent it. It's a really good security measure for 6 bucks. I used to get hacked all the time, got one, not bothered with hackers since.

I was dubious of the usefulness of the authenticator - then I got hacked one day, and within a week, I had account security.

I'm also loving Cataclysm. The stories are well-done, the quests are punny as hell (seriously, someone needs to slap the guy who wrote the quests for Vashj'ir..."Once More, With Eeling", a quest to rescue Samir and Mack, and a seahorse Flight Master), and the fights are epic. It's nice seeing fights that require more than just the tank who can run up, set down an AOE field, and tank whole groups of mobs while the DPS takes them down. I've lost whole parties just going through Stonecore, fighting those big rock mobs that throw down crystal shards that explode for uber amounts of damage.

The one thing I'm not real thrilled about is the whole making people find dungeon entrances before being able to queue for it. While it's a good idea (and more realistic), it also means that the people who have found the dungeons are stuck in 30-40 (and even up to an hour!) minute queue times waiting for a group to run with. That, coupled with the fact that groups tend to fall apart after a wipe, just leads to fewer people enjoying the new instances.

Locclo wrote:

DrK36 wrote:

Avatar 720 wrote:

agroszkiewicz wrote:

Avatar 720 wrote:Well, I got hacked earlier today because Blizzard Customer Support declined to communicate with me about suspicious e-mails I got.

I am slowly losing all respect I had for Blizzard.

This doesn't sound like Blizzard's fault in any shape form or fashion. I used the same PW on my WoW account for 4 years and never once got hacked.

I've had many different passwords, all secure, just in case. I've got licensed Kaspersky Anti-Virus and Malwarebytes, each regularly updated and scans performed daily. I'm IT savvy enough to know how to secure accounts and my PC and not to go to any dodgy websites. The one time I rely on Blizzard to confirm something about a string of suspicious e-mails regarding my battle.net account, they decline to get in touch with me bar an automated response that basicaly says "We got your customer support e-mail, we'll read it if we can be bothered."

I did everything I could on my side, the onus was on them to respond with a simple "Yes, these e-mails are genuine." or "No, these e-mails are fake." yet they decided not to reply at all. That was all they needed to do, but they left it so late that it now doesn't matter.

Not to sound like an asshat, but, if you don't have an authenticator, you didn't do everything possible to prevent it. It's a really good security measure for 6 bucks. I used to get hacked all the time, got one, not bothered with hackers since.

I was dubious of the usefulness of the authenticator - then I got hacked one day, and within a week, I had account security.

I'm also loving Cataclysm. The stories are well-done, the quests are punny as hell (seriously, someone needs to slap the guy who wrote the quests for Vashj'ir..."Once More, With Eeling", a quest to rescue Samir and Mack, and a seahorse Flight Master), and the fights are epic. It's nice seeing fights that require more than just the tank who can run up, set down an AOE field, and tank whole groups of mobs while the DPS takes them down. I've lost whole parties just going through Stonecore, fighting those big rock mobs that throw down crystal shards that explode for uber amounts of damage.

The one thing I'm not real thrilled about is the whole making people find dungeon entrances before being able to queue for it. While it's a good idea (and more realistic), it also means that the people who have found the dungeons are stuck in 30-40 (and even up to an hour!) minute queue times waiting for a group to run with. That, coupled with the fact that groups tend to fall apart after a wipe, just leads to fewer people enjoying the new instances.

Its no so much the amount of players queueing for dungeons, its a lack of healers. For DPS the queue is 40 minutes on average, for tanks i'll assume slightly less, but healers have an instant queue. I've watched my brother have an instant queue when ever he joins as a healer.

This is because the fights are harder (no longer just tank and spank), healing is alot harder with mana also being in short supply, and party's are impatient. People will pull additional groups and stand in lava/aoe damage, they are used to wrath were you could get away with this. The healer is also the first to get blamed for a wipe even if it was caused by people not knowing the fight or standing in aoe, only thing you can really do with some people is let them die (maybe they will learn the hard way ) but this also lowers everyone elses chances. (This also includes the infamous "oh no i have something attacking me i must run away from the tank so he cant pull it off! And while im at it i might as well run further into the instance" which results in someone running away from the people who can help him and likely pulling additional stuff). So while there were quite a few healers queueing many stopped due to the increased difficulty and abuse from other players.

Tanks have insta-queues. Pays off being a dual specced fury/prot

Honestly, all the new stuff reminds me so much of Vanilla, I've missed it. However, it sucks when you have kiddies who think they can just pull a huge mob, and hope for the best. I'd definitely believe the abuse from other players for healers, I know when I get my paladin up there, I won't be healing.

DrK36 wrote:Tanks have insta-queues. Pays off being a dual specced fury/prot

Honestly, all the new stuff reminds me so much of Vanilla, I've missed it. However, it sucks when you have kiddies who think they can just pull a huge mob, and hope for the best. I'd definitely believe the abuse from other players for healers, I know when I get my paladin up there, I won't be healing.

Tanking is mostly fine (except the people with aggro running off i mean seriously?) only a few fights where you have to do specific things, now if they are instant ques my feral druid is going to be happy (i would like to level a bit/ better gear first but hey i dont play that often). At least a few people remember vanilla where dungeons were harder than wrath but even then there is always the exception

My favorite was the first time I went into Molten Core....threw a bomb at the lowest level which aggroed trained everything up the spiral....hilarious while it lasted.

3 Pallies Bubble-Hearthed.

This was back in the day...when Burning Crusade was not even known.

Sanctjud wrote:My favorite was the first time I went into Molten Core....threw a bomb at the lowest level which aggroed trained everything up the spiral....hilarious while it lasted.

3 Pallies Bubble-Hearthed.

This was back in the day...when Burning Crusade was not even known.

Reminds me of stories of mind control